JAPANESE SNAKE BLENNY
Xiphasia matsubarai
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Inhabits deep waters but rises to the surface at night. Rare species (Ref. 559). Lives in a tube in fine sand or mud and rises to the surface at night where it falls prey to pelagic fishes (Ref. 37816). Oviparous (Ref. 205). Eggs are demersal and adhesive (Ref. 205).
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Squatina dumeril Lesueur, 1818
Sand devil |
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Raja undulata Lacepède, 1802
Undulate ray |
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Clarias nieuhofii Valenciennes, 1840 |
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Liza carinata (Valenciennes, 1836)
Keeled mullet |
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Nemipterus bipunctatus (Valenciennes, 1830)
Delagoa threadfin bream |